Transportation Planning

The purpose of the PADD Transportation Program is to support the KYTC Statewide Planning Process. The PADD is responsible mainly for the coordination of public input, analysis of data, identification and evaluation of transportation needs in the region, and the subsequent evaluation and prioritization/ranking of projects on the KYTC Unscheduled Projects List (UPL) for possible inclusion in the KYTC Six-Year Plan. The statewide planning process involves local governments, the general public, and the PADD Regional Transportation Committee.

It is the responsibility of the PADD, KYTC Highway District 1, and the KYTC to review and evaluate the regional transportation system and all current UPL projects. The purpose of evaluating the regional transportation system and current UPL is to analysize the data and determine the "need" for a project, assess the relative impacts on a comprehensive set of planning factors identified in federal regulations and state guidelines, and determine how the KYTC goals and objectives and the PADD goals and objectives are being met and addressed. The ADD will evaluate projects for factors that can be applied and/or considered at the local and/or regional level. The KYTC may provide additional consideration factors based on current KYTC criteria for the selection of projects.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet website provides access to various transportation data resources. City and county maps, traffic count data and maps as well as extracts from the Highway Information System (HIS) are available for viewing and printing.

*** KYTC 2008 RECOMMENDED HIGHWAY PLAN ***

The recommended plan can be viewed at http://transportation.ky.gov/progmgmt/08_RHP/.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet issues ‘Recommended Highway Plan’

Plan reflects that ‘careful choices must be made’ due to tighter revenues

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The 2008 Recommended Highway Plan, which contains all proposed Kentucky transportation projects through 2014, today was presented to members of the General Assembly and the public by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

The recommended plan anticipates that $5.3 billion in state and federal funding will be available over the upcoming six-year period – $1.03 billion less than the basis for the last plan, which was issued in 2006. The new plan anticipates “zero dollars” for new, state-funded projects until late in fiscal 2010.

Moderate growth in the Kentucky Road Fund has not kept pace with a 40 percent increase in the price of road-building materials since 2005, the report noted. In addition, the state portion of the plan contains projects that exceed forecasted revenues by nearly $3 billion.

“As we assess the Transportation Cabinet’s ability to meet future highway needs, we must recognize that when projects cost more, careful choices must be made about the type and extent of road system improvements we pursue,” Transportation Secretary Joe Prather said.

Priorities for an array of projects, including pavement restoration and bridge repair, are set in the plan accordingly.

The plan also provides for continued investment in the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project, in part through “innovative financing” of a type to be determined. The General Assembly is evaluating possible creation of public authorities that would have the task of determining the most appropriate means of securing funding beyond the state commitment for projects such as the Louisville Bridges.

Prather and other officials of the Transportation Cabinet have stated in testimony to legislative committees that the Louisville Bridges will require significant funding from nontraditional sources if the project is to move forward.

The amount of innovative financing needed for the bridges project is $844.9 million over the latter four years of the recommended plan. Total funding in the recommended plan for the Louisville Bridges, including traditional federal funding, is $1.44 billion.

The recommended plan contains a few new projects, including improvements needed to keep Kentucky’s commitments to the World Equestrian Games, to be held in Lexington in 2010, and to accommodate a major enhancement of Fort Knox, soon to be the home of the Army’s worldwide personnel management command.

KYTC Six-Year Plan 2007 - 2012

Six-Year Plan Maps

Draft Long Range Statewide Transportation Plan (2006)

Statewide Transportation Plan

KYTC Statewide Transportation Improvement Program FY 2007 - FY 2010

KYTC Traffic Count Maps

Traffic Count Program (CTS)

KYTC Bicycle & Pedestrian Program

Rural Consultation Report

REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE

As a major component of the public involvment process and to comply with the KYTC and the SAFETEA-LU requirements for public involvment, the PADD maintains a Regional Transportation Committee for the purpose of consultation, soliciting input, prioritizing/ranking transportation projects, developing regional goals and direction, identification and review of regional transportation needs, providing transportation information/updates and addressing any other transportation issues in the region. The committee has broad-based membership, develops and maintains by-laws consistent with KYTC direction, and convenes as often as necessary to complete the tasks assigned to the committee.

Membership can include:

Elected officals or representative for each county and city of 5,000 or more in population
Highway/Public Works representatives
School Transportation Officials
Human Service Delivery representatives
Representatives from major trucking firms, intermodal, rail, airport, riverport or public transportation entities, as appropritate for the region
Planning and Zoning Commissions/organizations
Bikeway/greenway/pedestrian coordinators representatives
Economic Development Organizations
Industrial Authorities/Commissions
Law Enforcement representatives
Emergency Medical Service/Fire Department representatives
Underserved populations/minority populations as noted through demographic data
Public Citizens

FY08 Committee Membership

Committee Bylaws

Committee Meetings: FY08

July 10, 2007 - Agenda/Minutes
September 19, 2007 - Agenda/Minutes
November 28, 2007 - Agenda / Minutes
January 30, 2008 - Agenda / Minutes
March 26, 2008 - Agenda / Minutes

Regional Transportation Committee Mission, Goals and Objectives

PADD Public Involvement Plan

Regional Concept Plan

UNSCHEDULED PROJECTS LIST

PRIORITIZATION PROCESS

Projects on the KYTC Unscheduled Projects List (UPL) are prioritized at the local, regional, district and state level every two years. The projects on the list have been identified through the statewide planning process. There is no set funding or implementation schedule for projects identified on the UPL. The KYTC uses the prioritization information as input into the recommended Six-Year Highway Plan that is submitted to the Kentucky General Assembly on a biennial basis.

A major part of the PADD’s regional transportation planning program is working with the local officials, the regional transportation committee and the general public in setting transportation priorities for all identified projects on the KYTC's Unscheduled Projects List. PADD staff work with the local officials and local transportation committees to first identify the local priority. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Guidelines for 2007 require the local input from each county to rank at a minimum the top 5 projects for that county. The regional committee is tasked with setting the regional priorities as High, Medium, and Low for the entire PADD UPL listing. The committee will then rank the top 25 high priority projects for the region. These rankings will be submitted to the KYTC District 1 and the District staff will do District priorities. The KYTC Division of Planning will then review all the statewide projects and priorities/rankings. Once this analysis is complete, then the Division of Planning will select the projects to be considered in the 2008 – 2013 Six-Year Highway Plan.

The 2007 Prioritization Process was undertaken by the PADD from April - July. The local and regional priorities and rankings were submitted to the KYTC on July 12, 2007. Click the links below to see the 2007 priorites and the Regional Top 25 projects.

September 2007 Rankings & Priorities / Unscheduled Projects List

2007 Regional Top 25 Rankings

PROJECT ID FORMS, PHOTOS, MAPS FOR THE REGION TOP 25 PROJECTS

UPL and Location Maps by County

Ballard UPL / Map

Calloway UPL / Map

Carlisle UPL / Map

Fulton UPL / Map

Graves UPL / Map

Hickman UPL / Map

McCracken UPL / Map

Marshall UPL / Map